home
products
contribute
download
documentation
forum
Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
All posts
Latest activity
Members
Registered members
Current visitors
Donate
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
MediaPortal 1
MediaPortal 1 Talk
Automatically delete unwanted channels?
Contact us
RSS
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="SpannerBracket" data-source="post: 1123840" data-attributes="member: 112771"><p>I'm another user in the channel deleting camp. I do it so that I can see clearly what I've got, I don't care about performance or disk space. I have a single TV card but it has 2 x DVB-T2 and 2 x DVB-S2 tuners on it. I also get hugely frustrated that both the T2s and both the S2s appear as exactly the same name.</p><p></p><p>I have about 30 channels configured. When I do a full scan there are more than 500 channels. Also naming here in the UK is pretty poor, for example "Channel 4" appears about 10 times in a satellite scan, and only one of them is correct for my region. This is when the multiple menus stuff gets in the way, as I have to manually check each channel's details to see if its the one listed against a 3rd party website as being for my region.</p><p></p><p>The huge list also becomes a problem when trying to merge TV channels between multiple tuners. This is fine over a single medium as they share a common name. But mapping various channels that are the same between a T2 and S2 but have different names, is a very time consuming process in the current UI.</p><p></p><p>I've actually honed the process now because the UI is so unusable when you get to this number of channels. I have a text file with the transponders and frequencies for the 30 channels that I actually care about. I manually add these in, and then delete any excess channels that I'm not interested in. This is far quicker than scrolling through a list of over 500 channels to mark the 30 I want.</p><p></p><p>I can then map my 30 channels to 30 logical numbers and all is good.</p><p></p><p>But yeah, the UI does make working with this stuff difficult - but to be fair its at least on a par if not better than any of the other TV server channel management programs I've used.</p><p></p><p>What would actually be really cool, though probably pie in the sky as I can't see any incentive for anyone to maintain it, would be an online database containing Country, Medium, Channel Names, Channel Logos, Transponder/Frequencies etc... I could then just tell Media Portal the channels I'm interested in, and it can sort out everything else and it could re-tune automatically when anything ever changed.</p><p></p><p>I haven't gone through the re-tuning process for a while so am rusty on specifics. I could probably post more constructive feedback if I did it again, if it would be useful for anyone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SpannerBracket, post: 1123840, member: 112771"] I'm another user in the channel deleting camp. I do it so that I can see clearly what I've got, I don't care about performance or disk space. I have a single TV card but it has 2 x DVB-T2 and 2 x DVB-S2 tuners on it. I also get hugely frustrated that both the T2s and both the S2s appear as exactly the same name. I have about 30 channels configured. When I do a full scan there are more than 500 channels. Also naming here in the UK is pretty poor, for example "Channel 4" appears about 10 times in a satellite scan, and only one of them is correct for my region. This is when the multiple menus stuff gets in the way, as I have to manually check each channel's details to see if its the one listed against a 3rd party website as being for my region. The huge list also becomes a problem when trying to merge TV channels between multiple tuners. This is fine over a single medium as they share a common name. But mapping various channels that are the same between a T2 and S2 but have different names, is a very time consuming process in the current UI. I've actually honed the process now because the UI is so unusable when you get to this number of channels. I have a text file with the transponders and frequencies for the 30 channels that I actually care about. I manually add these in, and then delete any excess channels that I'm not interested in. This is far quicker than scrolling through a list of over 500 channels to mark the 30 I want. I can then map my 30 channels to 30 logical numbers and all is good. But yeah, the UI does make working with this stuff difficult - but to be fair its at least on a par if not better than any of the other TV server channel management programs I've used. What would actually be really cool, though probably pie in the sky as I can't see any incentive for anyone to maintain it, would be an online database containing Country, Medium, Channel Names, Channel Logos, Transponder/Frequencies etc... I could then just tell Media Portal the channels I'm interested in, and it can sort out everything else and it could re-tune automatically when anything ever changed. I haven't gone through the re-tuning process for a while so am rusty on specifics. I could probably post more constructive feedback if I did it again, if it would be useful for anyone. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
MediaPortal 1
MediaPortal 1 Talk
Automatically delete unwanted channels?
Contact us
RSS
Top
Bottom